Word: move
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Melamed sees the Chicago scandal as just part of an ethical malaise in financial markets around the world. Said he: "Whatever the reason, it's a shame, and I think it's our greatest danger." His conciliatory move this week may actually hasten reform and speed up the Government investigation by reducing the elements of conflict, as he intends. But Melamed's response recalled a bit of wisdom from a bygone era in Chicago: when surrounded by the Feds, come out with your hands...
Though Kabul has not yet come under consistent, heavy military barrage, the city is vulnerable to attacks that may cut the Salang Highway, the 264-mile road that climbs the towering Hindu Kush and crosses long stretches of mujahedin-controlled territory to the Soviet border. In a move to push the guerrilla forces back from the highway, Soviet and Afghan troops last week shelled villages south of the Salang Tunnel, killing hundreds of civilians and refugees...
...hours north of Seattle. "I knew my mother would never let herself get tangled up in a mess like that," Tobias writes, but he is wrong. In fact, he is packed off to live with Dwight, and if all goes well, his mother will accept Dwight's proposal and move in too. All goes horribly. Dwight is a secretive bully who is either at his companions' feet or at their throats. With young Tobias, it is no contest. The boy is given demeaning, pointless tasks, constantly berated and subjected to drunken, careering rides up hairpin mountain roads. He could...
...chief Edward W. Desmond, who has seen his share of these weapons and the wars they fuel in south Asia since his arrival last October. Two weeks ago, Desmond managed to fly to Kabul, the Afghan capital, which faces a turbulent future as Soviet soldiers withdraw and the rebels move in. The nine- year-old war has proved a special challenge to Western reporters who have sneaked in, flown in under fire and otherwise struggled to report a story purposely shrouded in mystery. Desmond's first trip inside the country provides a brief but penetrating glimpse at a city...
...many people showed up for "Sex" at 1 p.m. yesterday that many students had to move to an adjacent lecture hall and watch the lecture on a video screen...